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ALMELOVEEN, THEODOOR JANSSON VAN. Inventa nov-antiqua; id est, Brevis enarratio ortus & progressus artis medicae... subjicitur eiusdem Rerum

ALMELOVEEN, THEODOOR JANSSON VAN. Inventa nov-antiqua; id est, Brevis enarratio ortus & progressus artis medicae... subjicitur eiusdem Rerum inventarum onomasticon.

[32], 249; [13], 85 pages, including engraved allegorical additional title (cropped in blank outer margin). 12mo, contemporary vellum; ink accession number on letterpress title verso; bookplate. Amsterdam: apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1684

  • Notes: first edition of one of the earliest surveys of the history of medicine, following by a glossary of miscellaneous discoveries and inventions. Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes I/5, page 6 ("a remarkable contribution to the history of discovery"). With the bookplate of the Strassburg anatomist Thomas Lauth (1758-1826); see Hirsch III, 627.

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